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Speaker 1: They only have a dirty sacks. Do you feel pressure

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Speaker 1: coming into you know, step in and not only contribute

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Speaker 1: right away, but start getting after the quarterback. I mean no,

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Speaker 1: not really, don't feel any type of pressure, you know.

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Speaker 1: Right now. I'm just trying to, you know, show the

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Speaker 1: team that I can learn to playbook and be an

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Speaker 1: asset on special teams and just contribute to the team

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Speaker 1: and anyway they need me. They need to bring on

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Speaker 1: the defense. Once you get on the field, Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: just somebody that's gonna do their assiment or curse first

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Speaker 1: and foremost, and somebody that's gonna get after every single

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Speaker 1: play like you to go get the quarterback. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's my favorite thing to do. You know,

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Speaker 1: I've been I've been a pass rushers every since I

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Speaker 1: started playing football, and you know, it's just it's just me.

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Speaker 1: Everything to me for any quarterback and particularly you're looking

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Speaker 1: forward to him. No, not nothing in particular, but if

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Speaker 1: I did have to pick, when I say Taylor honekey,

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Speaker 1: we played together old to men and it will be

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Speaker 1: pretty good to meet up with him again. Oh shame,

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Speaker 1: what type of you know, have you thought about this

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Speaker 1: big leap you have to take from a small program

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Speaker 1: to the NFL, and you know, what are your thoughts

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Speaker 1: about that? What do you want to accomplish? You know,

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Speaker 1: initially making that leap? Oh man, it is it is

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Speaker 1: a pretty big jump coming from older me into the

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Speaker 1: bigger stage, Like we've never had none of this. But

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Speaker 1: I mean it's something to get used to. But you know,

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Speaker 1: you gotta take everything one day at a time, just

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Speaker 1: like I do everything else in life, and I just

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Speaker 1: plan to just do that. I'm looking at the playbook,

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Speaker 1: I mean, was there something to jumped out that made

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Speaker 1: you say, yeah, this is gonna be a great fit

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Speaker 1: for my talents. I mean I feel like, uh, the

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Speaker 1: coaches they evaluated me my film and they feel like

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Speaker 1: I could fit into their scheme. And I feel the

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Speaker 1: same way about it. I mean, looking through the playbook,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm a good fit for the game.

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Speaker 1: If they talk about any changes like bigger, you assume

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Speaker 1: you're fast enough. But I mean anything like that, Uh No,

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Speaker 1: not really. I feel like being around my playing with

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Speaker 1: I played it last season that two is gonna be

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Speaker 1: pretty good. I'm right around there right now, so I

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Speaker 1: feel like just leaning out and just keep doing the

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Speaker 1: right things and putting the right things in my body

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Speaker 1: is probably the plan going forward. You had lost weight

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Speaker 1: then then gained it back, right, Yeah, right, so you

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Speaker 1: were you were a lot lighter at the Senior bowls. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: waiting a lot lighter at the Senior bowl just getting

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Speaker 1: adjusted to a new diet, and I got a little

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Speaker 1: stummach virr is going into the week. So but I

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Speaker 1: got all the good weight back on me now and

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Speaker 1: I've decided to keep that going. One of the things

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Speaker 1: that giants said when they took you was they liked

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Speaker 1: the fact that you don't really have one move. You

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Speaker 1: have counter boots. How did you develop those and how

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Speaker 1: much do you think that could help you with this level?

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is just my being with my coach

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Speaker 1: at Older Man Coach Commission. You know, That's something he

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Speaker 1: drilled into my head every single day, and just every

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Speaker 1: single day I went out there and work my craft

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Speaker 1: with him, and it eventually came something I got good at.

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Speaker 1: And I just plan on keep working my craft and

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Speaker 1: just trying to prefront everything that I can just to

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Speaker 1: be asset to the scene. And I'm not sure if

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Speaker 1: you're aware of this, but the pick that you were

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Speaker 1: in the back room trade. So I'm just curious if

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Speaker 1: your reactions as a fan and a football fan when

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Speaker 1: you heard that trade went down, and be if you've

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Speaker 1: given any thought to having to live up to, you know,

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Speaker 1: being part of that trade. I mean, I remember when

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Speaker 1: I seemed the trade happening. I didn't you know, at

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Speaker 1: the time, I didn't think it was gonna be me,

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Speaker 1: but you know it is. And you know, all I

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Speaker 1: can be is myself, you know, so I can't be

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Speaker 1: anybody else but myself. And that's why I just plan

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Speaker 1: on keep doing the nickname x men or is that

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Speaker 1: something that the Giants just gave you one Draft day

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Speaker 1: or water the nicknames surface on draft Day. That's the

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Speaker 1: first time anybody ever called me x man. But I

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Speaker 1: love the nickname actually, and I hope to keep that going. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they made it up here when the day profuse it.

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Speaker 1: I did you hear it the first day on the

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Speaker 1: on the phone, the phone called the Draft day phone call.

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Speaker 1: That's like the first time I heard X man. So

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Speaker 1: and it kind of surface on the internet and you know,

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Speaker 1: I got my few of my friends back home calling

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Speaker 1: me that now, and I just feel like it's gonna

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Speaker 1: keep going in the right direction. X Man, were you

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Speaker 1: surprised official? Were you surprised the draft when you got

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Speaker 1: the call? I was was surprised. I didn't. I didn't

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Speaker 1: think they were gonna pay me, just because I didn't

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Speaker 1: have like a visit here or anything like that. But

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Speaker 1: you know, when I got the New York was somewhere

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Speaker 1: I wanted to go because I had roots here. And like,

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Speaker 1: when I got the call, it's said in New Jersey

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Speaker 1: on the call, I and D and the Jets were

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Speaker 1: the Jets. But when I figured out was New York,

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Speaker 1: man like, I dropped my phone and I was just excited,

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Speaker 1: man like. And I'm just happy to be here. I'm

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Speaker 1: just ready to get out there and contribute one morning.

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Speaker 1: And that help having in that family, Oh yeah, definitely. Um.

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Speaker 1: I grew. I was born in New York. I moved

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Speaker 1: away when I was like five years old. But my grandma,

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Speaker 1: she was off with having boulevard and queens, and you know,

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Speaker 1: being around Grandma was always good. It's always that love

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Speaker 1: and field. So being around her, having that love is

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Speaker 1: definitely gonna help me out here and I'm excited to

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Speaker 1: be back home. You're gonna try to shoot over there?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, definitely. If I get some free time, probably

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be this weekend, but if I get some free

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Speaker 1: time around the summer sometimes, of course I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: back and see her. She'll kill me a I did

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